TY - CHAP
T1 - Global environmental change and health: Integrating knowledge from natural, socio-economic and medical sciences
AU - Leemans, R.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Environmental problems, such as air quality, pollution and toxicity, have
historically strongly been linked with health issues. The earliest environmental
policies were targeted to negate health impacts. This focus has become less obvious
during the last decades when environmental problems became more diffuse and
covered larger areas and regions. Nowadays, degradation of natural resources, climate
change and the decline in biodiversity are the major environmental problems. To deal
effectively with these problem international conventions and national policies strongly
relate also to developmental issues, equity and improved human well-being.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA; www.millenniumassessment.org), a
four-year international work programme designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers
for scientific information on ecosystem change, has taken up the challenge to
comprehensively assess the consequences of environmental change for ecosystems,
ecosystems services and human well-being. The MA focuses on how changes in
ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may
affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local,
national or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to
human well-being and poverty alleviation. Health is one of the central themes in the
Millennium Assessment.
AB - Environmental problems, such as air quality, pollution and toxicity, have
historically strongly been linked with health issues. The earliest environmental
policies were targeted to negate health impacts. This focus has become less obvious
during the last decades when environmental problems became more diffuse and
covered larger areas and regions. Nowadays, degradation of natural resources, climate
change and the decline in biodiversity are the major environmental problems. To deal
effectively with these problem international conventions and national policies strongly
relate also to developmental issues, equity and improved human well-being.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA; www.millenniumassessment.org), a
four-year international work programme designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers
for scientific information on ecosystem change, has taken up the challenge to
comprehensively assess the consequences of environmental change for ecosystems,
ecosystems services and human well-being. The MA focuses on how changes in
ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may
affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local,
national or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to
human well-being and poverty alleviation. Health is one of the central themes in the
Millennium Assessment.
KW - milieufactoren
KW - ziekten overgebracht door vectoren
KW - ecosystemen
KW - environmental factors
KW - vector-borne diseases
KW - ecosystems
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781402039270
T3 - Wageningen UR Frontis series
SP - 15
EP - 26
BT - Environmental change and Malaria risk
A2 - Takken, W.
A2 - Martens, P.
A2 - Bogers, R.J.
CY - Dordrecht
ER -